Author Archives: Andrew Paul

Andrew Paul's work is recently featured online or is forthcoming in Oxford American, Trop, Jewcy, Lent Magazine, and The Bitter Southerner. His collection of short fiction, The River Thief, is a recipient of the 2012 Portz National Honors Award. He lives in Mississippi. Follow him on Twitter @anandypaul.

If you’re a middle class white dude born anytime after 1985, chances are you picked up a copy of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian at some point between the sophomore years of high school and college. Many of you may have ...

Blaxploitation cinema could require a primer course in and of itself. The genre’s stories and characters are both nuanced reflections of disenfranchised later-twentieth century African American life, as well as schlocky popcorn-fare, full of saturated colors, fantastical pimps and pushers, ...

“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.” – H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III “There are no secrets about the world of nature. ...

The concepts in a Faustian story are not difficult to understand: humanity’s struggle for enlightenment and faith, coping with evil in the world, learning not to sell your soul to the Devil, et cetera. The concepts of an Alexander Sokurov ...

It goes without saying that Ti West is one of the most promising genre directors in recent years. In an era of cookie cutter sequels and watered-down reboots, films like The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers are welcome ...

There’s revenge cinema, and then there’s Blue Ruin. In the past, classic horror vendetta flicks like Last House on the Left, Straw Dogs, and I Spit on Your Grave have taken the shock route to convey, however bluntly, the hollow, ...

Over the last decade, director Scott Derrickson has made a huge name for himself in the horror genre with the back-to-back successes of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinister. This week, his latest supernatural genre film, Deliver Us from ...

Chances are if you hadn’t heard of Alejandro Jodorowsky before last year’s documentary hit Jodorowsky’s Dune you’d seen his influence in some of your favorite films. The French-Chilean avant-garde director, playwright, comic book author, self-ascribed tarot expert, and “atheistic mystic” ...

Horror, in its most honest form, is a distillation of cultural and historical trauma, a generation’s culmination of disaster, inhumanity, and marginalization. Dracula reflected the Western xenophobic anxieties of an increasingly modernized society. Cthulhu reminds us of our cosmic helplessness. ...